UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9072

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32. It is an attempted excessive memory allocation in setupgroup in elf.c...

binutils: lack of range checking leading to controlled write in _bfd_elf_setup_sections()

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way various binutils utilities processed certain files. If a user were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, it could cause the utility used to process that file to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user...